Celt’s Cavern Of Chaos

[oldsmokey]

Ok all caught up my vote is for
Blue Cheese and Afghan Kush

 

[InTheShed]

if you are ever in Nova Scotia, I will hook you up with some of the finest lobster and seafood you’ll ever have

Looking forward to it Celt!

 

[oldsmokey]

Maritimers are mighty fine people! I should know I married one.

 

[The Celt]

Caper or Newfie

 

[oldsmokey]

Cape Breton

 

[The Celt]

figures, most martimers no longer here, come from one of 2 places lol

 

[oldsmokey]

figures, most martimers no longer here, come from one of 2 places lol

Do you say that because of the lack of employment in those areas?

 

[The Celt]

Both Cape Breton and NFLD are beautiful country, spent months working in both places. Fell in love with western CB, still very Celtic and all hills and vales, no flat country, but limited work options due to sparse population and little industry. So ya, that’s likely why so many leave for other areas of Canada.

When I was in Fort McMurray, the local joke was:

Whats the capital of NFLD?
Fort Mac

 

[oldsmokey]

That's what I thought. Good joke

 

[The Celt]

In all honesty, Eastern and Western CB are very different places. We usually refer to E.CB as Industrial Cape Breton and has denser population centers. Western CB is more like you’d expect of rural Scotland but more forest and less farmland. It’s the CB where I could see myself retiring if I decided to leave the mainland or move anywhere else in Canada.

When you visit W.CB, you will always be welcomed, but most will always be outsiders. If they treat you like family, you are accepted as one of them, for life

 

[oldsmokey]

When you visit W.CB, you will always be welcomed, but most will always be outsiders

You mean treated like you're from a way.

My wife is from a small fishing village on the West coast of cape Breton not too far from Glace Bay.

 

[The Celt]

Lol yes they will treat you well but not the same as if you were from there and Glacé Bay is actually part of Industrial CB, east of the Bras’dors

I have good friends from all over CB, NFLD and in all reality, the country worked all over

Have good friends overseas and South as well, but most of them I have never met in person

 

[oldsmokey]

I have never been there myself maybe this summer will be the year.

 

[The Celt]

Beautiful place mate, both sides

 

[Weaselcracker]

I assume you had to abandon your new one-way valves you waited so long for, now that you upgraded the return pipes to 1”?

 

[The Celt]

I assume you had to abandon your new one-way valves you waited so long for, now that you upgraded the return pipes to 1”?

No, I am installing them in these return pipes as well, the risk of airlock still exists. In a way, I am ’hoping’ it still air locks when not running.

When it air locks and the pump turns on, the buckets fill up to about an inch from the top and then drain back down to a level about 1” below the net pot, acting like a flood/drain system once an hour, or however often I need to run it to keep DO levels up.

Once I finish the retrofit, if it air locks when the pump is off and I know I have no leaks in the return tubes now, I have ideas on why it does which I will share later but due to the flood/drain aspect, I am hoping it continues to work that way.

The 1” return pipes were needed for flow, don’t really think they will solve air locking without the valves installed.

 

[bluenoserjoe]

In all honesty, Eastern and Western CB are very different places. We usually refer to E.CB as Industrial Cape Breton and has denser population centers. Western CB is more like you’d expect of rural Scotland but more forest and less farmland. It’s the CB where I could see myself retiring if I decided to leave the mainland or move anywhere else in Canada.

When you visit W.CB, you will always be welcomed, but most will always be outsiders. If they treat you like family, you are accepted as one of them, for life

You will never meet nicer people then Capers or Newfs. We have many close friends from both places. Myself, I'm a mainlander and a grouchy old fart to boot. My wife from Texada, BC, says that once a CFA then always a CFA. Some of her best friends are from the island and she would move into the highlands in a heart beat. A few move years to retirement so one never knows.
@The Celt , Where did you find the do meter? I an upgrading my air pump and air stones about ten fold and am curious as to what the increase will be.

 

[CADBOY]

Both Cape Breton and NFLD are beautiful country, spent months working in both places. Fell in love with western CB, still very Celtic and all hills and vales, no flat country, but limited work options due to sparse population and little industry. So ya, that’s likely why so many leave for other areas of Canada.

When I was in Fort McMurray, the local joke was:

Whats the capital of NFLD?
Fort Mac

Ain't that the truth haha. Altho most of my family is back home in old St John's NF.

 

[The Celt]

Morning @bluenoserjoe,

I went to amazon first to see what was available, prices ranged from about $150 for Chinese knockoffs up to $1000s which are likely made in China as well

Afterwards, I went to Aliexpress, where most overseas stuff comes from, and ordered a model I had seen on Amazon for under $90 delivered, should be here mid-January.

Money is too tight these days to buy high end testing equipment, so Chinese knockoffs will have to do unless of course I win the lottery in the near future

 

[CADBOY]

Ain't that the truth haha. Altho most of my family is back home in old St John's NF.

Ps. Unless your born after 1985+ everyone is using NF instead of NFLD... It actually dives me cause my whole life its been NFLD, I prefer it